Turns out the tests are next week. Well, why the hell did I just buy (fair trade) chocolate chips?

Also, the second book in Ever After High is out! Eva will be so thrilled.

^ . ^

School suspends girl who shaved head to support cancer-stricken friend

http://bit.ly/1mtaYuI

Ukrainian navy decimated by Russian move into Crimea

http://bit.ly/1jqGQzV

World 'Woefully Unprepared' For Upcoming Climate Change-Related Food Crisis

http://bit.ly/1jrFbdg

According to a World Health Organization report released today, around 1 in 8 of total global deaths - 7 million deaths annually - are as a result of exposure to air pollution.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/274510.php

Kindergarten teacher: My job is now about tests and data — not children. I quit.

http://wapo.st/1jkA6Dy

Evidence that half of America is at or near poverty

http://bit.ly/1hltq0U

City Demands Church Stop Sheltering The Homeless

http://bit.ly/1ffzYhh

A U.S.-Mexico project is releasing a 'pulse' of water Sunday from Lake Mead in hopes of reinvigorating the dry region south of the border, an experiment in restoration and binational cooperation.

http://lat.ms/1fYlTnL

Town and country: how where we live affects how we vote

http://on.wsj.com/1jgAyyh

With the death toll from Saturday’s massive mudslide now at 14, firefighters and those wanting to aid in the search for survivors are growing frustrated.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023218499_mudslidefirefightersxml.html

Mother-of-pearl inspires super-strong material

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140324090250.htm

Thousands of preschoolers suspended every year

http://bit.ly/1fYjoBT

New material can be solar cell by day and light source at night

http://phys.org/news/2014-03-scientists-material-solar-cell-day.html

North Carolina regulators said Friday that they have asked a judge to withdraw a proposed settlement that would have allowed Duke Energy to resolve multiple cases of environmental abuse by paying a $99,000 fine with no requirement that the $50 billion company clean up its pollution.

There's just no law for some people.

http://alj.am/1iULMu8

A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who was serving, probably as a volunteer, in a Roman legion in Europe.

It's a little sad. I hope his family was all right. I mean, obviously they're all long dead now anyway, but....

http://www.livescience.com/43900-ancient-egyptian-soldier-letter-deciphered.html

St. Louis County mother furious after being arrested for consoling son

http://bit.ly/1hlr2r8

I've started in on covering all my paperbacks with contact paper.

I hate contact paper, just FYI, and I'm clearly going to have to buy a whole lot more of it.

Do you think it would be enough to just get the edges instead of the entire cover? Paper and cardboard tear from the outside in, after all.